William Parsons (died 1828)[1] was an English poet, one of the Della Cruscans.
Parsons was one of the coterie who published verse in The World in 1784–5, and later called the "Della Cruscans".
He was piqued at his exclusion from The Baviad (1791), William Gifford's satire on the group, leading to an episode of name-calling.
[3] In the Florence Miscellany of 1785, written with Piozzi, Robert Merry the original Della Cruscan, and Bertie Greatheed, Parsons had the largest share.
By a member of the Arcadian Society at Rome, London, at the Logographic Press, 1787, is eked out by imitations, translations, and complimentary verses to Piozzi and Elizabeth Montagu.